Metro Regions

Equity, Growth, and Community presents case studies and emerging narratives on 11 metro regions on what’s happening with different types of multi-sector collaborations – places that are successfully working together, places working through conflict, and places somewhere in between. These approaches –whether planner-led, business-led, conflict-driven, or high tech/high road-centered – offer a range of strategies instructive for other metro regions grappling with similar issues. Learn more about the 11 case studies in our Metro Regions section.

Maps and Charts

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Data

Access interactive tables and downloadable metro-level data and rankings on measures of equity and growth (including by US census-designated regions: Northeast, Midwest, South, or West) on our Data page.

Metropolitan Region

197980-20 ratio

1979Poverty

1979Jobs (000s)

1979Earnings Per Job - 2010

201080-20 ratio

2010Poverty

2010Jobs (000s)

2010Earnings Per Job - 2010

Equity IndexValue

Equity IndexRank

Growth IndexValue

Growth IndexRank

2010Gini

2010Median Income -2010

Northeast average (unweighted)

4.08

0.09

717

43849

4.74

0.12

942

52946

0

98

0

96

0.45

55816

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

4.09

0.1

385

44650

4.85

0.11

533

55513

0.04

94

0.19

70

0.44

55796

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

3.89

0.07

311

46906

4.6

0.12

418

49623

-0.52

169

-0.21

117

0.43

55630

Atlantic City, NJ

4.53

0.13

100

44653

4.59

0.14

175

48114

0.67

17

0.27

60

0.43

52571

Barnstable Town, MA

4.06

0.09

74

31321

4.21

0.11

138

39738

0.52

27

1.12

8

0.47

55294

Binghamton, NY

4.03

0.09

131

43536

4.49

0.15

133

45859

-0.28

141

-1.17

188

0.43

45959

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH

4.4

0.09

2214

44185

5.08

0.1

3078

68235

0.31

47

0.83

22

0.47

68020

Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT

4.4

0.07

443

50342

5.66

0.09

598

81934

-0.51

167

0.87

19

0.54

74831

Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY

4.47

0.1

598

46867

4.96

0.14

637

48829

0.19

64

-0.9

182

0.45

46420

Erie, PA

3.93

0.1

138

43909

5.21

0.17

156

41779

-1.05

188

-0.99

184

0.45

42519

Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

3.65

0.08

258

44852

4.04

0.11

384

52275

0.17

70

0.2

67

0.42

54009

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

3.74

0.08

615

47062

4.65

0.1

774

63313

-0.37

157

0.16

73

0.45

63104

Lancaster, PA

3.54

0.08

193

41755

4.11

0.1

294

44502

0.09

84

0.01

87

0.42

51740

Manchester-Nashua, NH

3.73

0.07

155

39710

3.9

0.07

248

56658

0.82

7

0.88

18

0.41

68312

New Haven-Milford, CT

4.09

0.09

385

43233

5.09

0.12

476

54745

-0.32

151

-0.12

105

0.47

57056

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA

5.16

0.13

8178

52246

5.64

0.14

10837

72992

0.59

24

0.45

42

0.5

61927

Norwich-New London, CT

3.71

0.08

123

45221

4.19

0.09

168

55087

0.37

42

0.14

76

0.43

62349

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

4.48

0.12

2532

48507

5.14

0.13

3391

62206

0.34

45

0.21

64

0.47

58095

Pittsburgh, PA

4.33

0.09

1231

50865

4.82

0.12

1392

53715

0.3

50

-0.64

173

0.47

46700

Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME

3.53

0.1

200

38154

4.2

0.1

338

46381

0.29

54

0.74

26

0.43

56530

Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY

3.97

0.09

222

43434

4.18

0.09

327

49388

0.6

23

0.16

74

0.42

67269

Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA

4.47

0.1

700

38115

5.43

0.14

846

50689

-0.28

140

0.02

86

0.46

51935

Reading, PA

3.92

0.08

164

43395

4.51

0.14

218

46277

-0.6

172

-0.31

131

0.44

51759

Rochester, NY

4.06

0.09

493

48357

4.68

0.14

611

50234

-0.32

149

-0.61

168

0.45

50211

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

3.74

0.1

266

39358

4.73

0.15

311

42509

-0.47

162

-0.62

170

0.45

42368

Springfield, MA

4.48

0.12

306

38767

5.49

0.16

364

45551

-0.27

139

-0.38

136

0.45

49209

Syracuse, NY

4.11

0.1

311

44861

4.99

0.14

372

49880

-0.3

148

-0.56

158

0.46

49694

Trenton-Ewing, NJ

4.28

0.09

180

47963

5.19

0.12

260

69727

-0.32

150

1.01

12

0.47

70956

Utica-Rome, NY

3.82

0.11

143

39734

4.61

0.15

159

44151

-0.08

113

-0.69

177

0.42

46625

Worcester, MA

4.23

0.09

311

39526

4.98

0.11

412

51648

0.09

83

0.17

72

0.44

61212

York-Hanover, PA

3.67

0.07

161

43981

3.88

0.09

217

46839

0.31

49

-0.2

116

0.4

56368

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